echodot

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago

I can't tell if you're serious or not.

If the internet is down then I don't have access to the app store. Also if the internet's down then the data is going to be out of date almost immediately anyway so any cached version would be useless.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

How would a novice programmer even know if the code that they're writing isn't breaking something else?

I've tried getting AI to program really simple things, like converting street addresses into latitude and longitude coordinates, and the code it produces is just awful.

It's not ready at all for primetime yet, I really wish people would stop pushing it. It'll get there I'm sure but it needs more time.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 2 days ago

Then don't buy a steam deck. As I said in my comment any handheld PC will do it doesn't have to be a steam deck.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 3 days ago

I'm not surprised it got a bad answer though. The government was completely dysfunctional by that point (and had been well over a year), I wouldn't be surprised if it was just some random civil servant who was just told to weave a fig leaf at it.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 22 points 3 days ago (2 children)

There's no way he actually said that. It's correctly punctuated and there isn't a single misspelling.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 6 points 3 days ago

They should have gone the other route and just had the woman from 2 point Museum/Campus so it, complete with sarcastic remarks.

"The train is delayed, but you know that already"

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 3 days ago

There are probably tons of people who would pay to hear an AI version of their voice coming from the train speakers.

Yeah, but it needs to be clear, and as much as I love Dave from the pub, he tends to mumble.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 3 days ago

Is this the weird football but not really game? I saw it advertised a couple of days ago and it didn't seem to have a really awful camera.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 18 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Just by literally any of the other handheld PCS and just stick an emulator on it if you're that interested in playing the games. The only reason to buy a Switch 2 is for convenience.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Vibe coding is an utterly stupid idea that just results in you not knowing how the code works.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 10 points 3 days ago

I'm sorry but that capitalisation is really off-putting.

You're Not Writing A Headline You Know

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 13 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Federation is an overly complicated solution it's not required. It also wouldn't actually help, they can still take it off the app store there'd be another one but they would just play whack-a-mole and you can achieve the same thing with open source.

The best bet would be to have the database hosted outside the US and just have apps that pull the data from an API. There's no need for the app itself to store the data in fact that's a really stupid way to do it. You could federate it if you wanted but honestly that's probably unnecessary

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